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Chapter 438 The Unexpected Person
"Jiang Yang, is your opponent Yuan Qian?" Chen Cuyi said.Although it was a question, it was affirmative.

Jiang Yang nodded, did not speak, and continued to look at the phone screen.

"Yuan Qian's culinary skills are very good. Although he is not No.1 in the qualifiers of Fujian Province, his strength is not inferior to No.1 in Fujian Province. Even, his real cooking skills are even better than No.1 in Fujian Province. This man You like to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger, so be careful." Chen Cuyi reminded.

He also knew something about Yuan Qian and knew that this was not a simple character, so he reminded Jiang Yang.

Jiang Yang nodded. Naturally, he would not be careless. This person's cooking skills... can be seen from the video of the competition!Definitely not just what he showed in the qualifiers!
"Thanks! I will pay attention. By the way, who is your opponent?" Jiang Yang asked.

"A chef of Hunan cuisine." Chen Chuyi smiled.

"Really?" Jiang Yang also laughed.

The two of them were able to enter the national competition because the chef was not good enough. How many chefs are not good enough?
It's just because Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine have something in common, for example, people in both provinces like spicy food!
Chen Cuiyi is a traditional chef from Sichuan Province. He is also an inheritor of Mapo Tofu. He is good at cooking spicy and delicious dishes.Chefs from Hunan Province are also good at cooking spicy dishes.

This made Chen Cuyi laugh, the collision of Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine makes me feel excited just thinking about it.

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The next day, the game officially started.

The organizer changed from yesterday's long-winded, and became more straightforward.There are no redundant and complicated steps, just go directly to the topic.

The games are played in batches at the same time. Although it is a two-to-two battle, there are multiple games at the same time.

There are 175 people in the first round, and it is impossible to compete at the same time, so they have to be divided into batches.

The organizer's plan is to compete one round a day without dragging behind.

Jiang Yang sat in a rest position on the side of the field, watching the upcoming game on the field.In fact, except for the first batch of people who were playing on the field, the rest of the people were all watching from below.

The competition field is very large, and the 44 movable stoves are neatly arranged in pairs.Let people know at a glance which two are the opponents.

Except for the place to rest, the other places around the arena are full of ingredients!
The amount of each ingredient is different. Commonly used ingredients have more portions, and less commonly used ingredients have less portions, but each ingredient is enough for the chefs on the field.There are many types of food materials. The organizer has divided five areas: meat area, vegetable area, seafood area, dry goods area, and seasoning area, which looks like a large vegetable market.

The ingredients are densely packed together, and different ingredients will be placed in different grids, which look no less than the grids for medicinal materials in Chinese medicine stores.

Every ingredient is just there, with no labels on what it is.I don't know if the organizers did it on purpose or forgot.

There were a lot of people in the auditorium, much more than the people in the qualifiers in Sichuan Province.

Before the game even started, the audience was buzzing.Some held signs to support, and some shouted words of support.

There are many cameras, but Jiang Yang didn't count them in detail.

More than ten meters in front of Jiangyang, it is a very special location.There was a long dining table with chairs behind it.

There were people sitting on the chair, and Jiang Yang saw acquaintances - Lin Yong and Shen Peihong!
They were sitting in chairs, waiting quietly.There are still dozens of people sitting with them!

Jiang Yang knew that this was the jury, but the size of the jury was too big.

Jiang Yang didn't know, but the organizers tried their best to invite them.In the previous national competitions, there were not so many judges.

This time, the organizer invited the presidents of chef associations from all provinces, and besides that, famous gourmets in the society were also invited!Shen Peihong is one of the gourmets.

Such a review scale can be described as unprecedented.

"The competition has started, please draw the questions!"

As the words fell, the contestants in each group began to draw questions.

There are a total of 22 groups of competitions in one batch, and there is a referee next to each group, or it is more appropriate to call it a supervisor.

At this time, the supervisor held a tablet computer and asked one of the players to click start and the other player to click stop.

Soon, the titles of each group of competitions appeared on the big screen.

Jiang Yang looked at it, and found that the topics were all kinds of strange, there were specified ingredients, there were specified types of dishes, and there were various topics.

But there is only one thing, there is no specified cuisine and dishes!Chefs can play on their own according to the topic.

Jiang Yang looked at it twice and couldn't help frowning.The space for manipulation of these questions can be large or small, and the selection of questions depends entirely on luck.If you are unlucky and get the designated ingredients, and it happens to be ingredients that you are not good at or have not cooked at all, then there is no room for manipulation.In other words, good cooking skills do not necessarily lead to promotion, but may lose to those with poor cooking skills.

Luck plays a big role!

Jiang Yang thought to himself.

Yang Kaizhong sighed inwardly, can this kind of competition really allow the chef to display his true strength?

If it were him, he would definitely not adopt such a method, and it would be too dependent on luck.

Not only Yang Kaizhong, most of the presidents of chef associations in the provinces held their breath and wanted to curse!How can such a lottery method and such a competition topic show the true level of a chef?Every chef has limitations, so that's useless for anything but a gimmick!

However, no amount of dissatisfaction can only be held in my heart.

They already knew something, and knew that the Chefs Association would not be able to intervene in this competition.Looking at Yang Kaizhong's gaze, it also brought a little complexity.

Yang Kaizhong didn't realize it.

The game is on!

The chefs went to pick the ingredients one after another, and a small number of chefs stood there, seemingly thinking about something.

The competition has already started from the selection of ingredients. Identifying ingredients and distinguishing the quality of ingredients are the basic skills of a chef.

As the minutes passed, Jiang Yang paid attention to Chen Cuyi.

That's right, he was in the first batch of games.

The topic Chen Cuiyi drew was - fish!

We are currently choosing ingredients.

His opponent is a chef of Hunan cuisine, Jiang Yang knew it last night.Hunan cuisine chefs are also good at spicy dishes, so it's interesting to compare the two.

Chen Cuyi picked and picked, and finally chose a plump grass carp.

Suddenly, Jiang Yang saw a familiar figure!

Lily?Why is he here!

Jiang Yang frowned. Li Li is Liao Lao's disciple and Liao Lili's fellow apprentice!Affiliated to Chef Sichuan Province!
Jiang Yang wondered why Li Li didn't come to participate in the previous Sichuan Provincial Qualifiers.Unexpectedly, I met Li Li in the national arena!
Reminiscent of Liao Lili's state, Jiang Yang guessed, could something have happened between them?
It's a pity that Jiang Yang has no way of knowing, and Liao Lili doesn't want to talk about it.

Jiang Yang put away the doubts in his heart and watched him choose the ingredients.

Now is the game, some things should not be said now.

(End of this chapter)